Source is twifinite.net
Author is Nick Santagelo
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Mini NES Classic Sold Almost as Many Units in November as Wii U Did in Six Months
That Nintendo’s miniature NES Classic Edition console has been successful is hardly news. [...]
But there’s some new perspective indicating that the retro console is far more popular than Nintendo’s flagship games platform, the Wii U. Ars Technica is reporting that the NES Classic has been so popular this holiday season, that its sales in November alone nearly matched six months’ worth of Wii U sales. The NPD Group attributes 196,000 sales to the NES Mini during the month of November and just 220,000 to the Wii U from the April to September period.
This astounding feat was accomplished despite the NES Classic not going on sale until November 11. Had it been on sale the entire month, its rate of sale indicates it would have moved 294,000 units. [...]
That doesn’t take into account that November sales of consumer products tend to be higher than those in any month between April and September. Still, it’s probably safe to say that the miniaturized Nintendo Entertainment System is exponentially more popular than the Wii U is right now.
The unique combination of the seemingly everlasting popularity of Nintendo’s first games console and consumer apathy toward its current one have made for a situation neither of Nintendo’s main competitors would likely find themselves in.
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Meanwhile, the Wii U continues its slow death march, with successor Nintendo Switch set to launch sometime in March 2017.
